Brief Life History of Eleazer
When Eleazer Davis was born on 18 August 1826, in Livonia, Livingston, New York, United States, his father, Asa Davis, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Ann Richardson, was 33. He married Nancy Brown about 1848. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Antelope, Nebraska, United States in 1885. He died on 8 March 1898, in Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States.
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- Eleazer Davis, "Nebraska State Census, 1885"
- Legacy NFS Source: Eleazer Davis - birth-name: Eleazer Davis
- Eleazer Davis, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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1827
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1845 · Oh My Father
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life sketch compiled by Mormon Battalion Association
Eleazer Davis was born 18 August 1826 in New York, one of fourteen children. According to the history of Mills County, Iowa, his parents moved to Ohio in 1831. He arrived in Quincy, Illinois by 184 …
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